Cheltenham on Divers’ radar

DIVERS remains on course for a tilt at the Paddy Power Gold Cup at Cheltenham on Saturday week despite being pulled up on his seasonal return at Carlisle.

The grey landed the Centenary Novices’ Handicap Chase at the Cheltenham Festival in March and was making his first start since in Sunday’s Colin Parker Memorial Intermediate Chase in Cumbria.

Keith Mercer was hard at work from an early stage in the testing conditions and eventually pulled up three fences from home, but Murphy expects his charge to improve considerably.